Spotlight not working - and worse

Deary me what a mess I'm in. I tried to move files from my imac g3 via firewire to my Powerbook G4 (in target disc mode) all went well and i moved my pictures and my documents. I then tried to open entourage on my imac and it came up with a 'welcome to entourage page' - three years of emails lost from all thre of my identities + all my address books!! Plus when I tried to look for them using spotlight I found spotlight didn't work. I looked through the files I moved and couldn't find anything out of place but to be sure I firewired them all back. Still the same no spotlight and no emails. Anyone got anything i can try or helpful suggestions??

It was some problem to do with Microsoft Office 2004 as the emails etc are stored in 'documents' and 'documents' was one of the things I copied to the powerbook
There have been other reports of large mail folders clogging Spotlight. In the Spotlight preferences you have the option to tell it not to index certain folders. I tell mine not to index my Entourage databases. On the few occasions I need to search mail messages, I can do it easily enough from within Entourage.

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